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Rebel LNP MP George Christensen resigns as the Nationals chief whip, after repeatedly threatening to walk away from the party altogether. The ABC understands Thursday will be his last day in the role. Follow live.
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Two directors of embattled company Bellamy's, chairman Rob Woolley and Launa Inman, resign on the morning of a push by shareholder Jan Cameron to oust most of the board.
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US President Donald Trump proposes a $US54 billion ($70 billion) increase in military spending to be funded by cuts elsewhere in government, including in foreign aid, the White House says.
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A 19-year-old Tasmanian man who is charged over a crash that killed his teenage girlfriend and their baby faces the Burnie Magistrates Court.
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Mange is not the only threat facing Tasmania's wombats, as more than 50 permits are issued in the past year to cull the protected mammals on farming properties.
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Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway read out the wrong best picture winner in "the craziest Oscar moment of all time", but how did it happen?
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The plan to reopen logging to stimulate the Tasmanian timber products industry could backfire and cost jobs, an independent politician says.
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Former Bandido Lionel Patea, who was sentenced to life in prison for murdering Tara Brown, has a history of breaching domestic violence orders and attacked the young Gold Coast mother a week before killing her.
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A host of Australian sports stars throw their voices behind a new campaign to stamp out poor sideline behaviour that is turning kids away from weekend games.
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The Government's privacy watchdog wants answers from bureaucrats who leaked a Centrelink client's personal details to a journalist in a bid to counter her public criticisms.
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The Queensland Government scraps its appeal against a Federal Court ruling that police were racist in their response to riots sparked by the death in custody of Cameron Doomadgee on Palm Island in 2004.
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The Victorian Government announces plans to rezone 100,000 housing blocks and create 17 new suburbs in Melbourne's key growth zones in an effort to tackle housing affordability.
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The owner of a heritage-listed Hobart property containing asbestos will feel the "full force" of the council, the Lord Mayor says, after the home was demolished without a permit and even after locals tried to intervene.
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A debate to decriminalise abortion in Queensland is cancelled and the issue postponed until at least the next term of Parliament, after LNP MPs indicated they would not support the proposal.
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A West Australian police officer convicted two years ago of unlawfully using a tracking device to monitor a mate's girlfriend is awarded almost $15,000 in legal costs after successfully appealing against the decision.
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Muhammad Ali's son and former partner speak out about being detained by airport officials in Florida, describing it as religious profiling and "the kind of wrong" the boxing great fought against.
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Former New South Wales premier Mike Baird is moving back to banking, as the National Australia Bank's chief customer officer for corporate and institutional banking.
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A tourism and "wellbeing centre" project on the Tasman Peninsula looks likely to go ahead, almost a decade after its developer, entrepreneur Dick Smith, shelved the proposal due to local opposition.
